The shareholder's right to claim for indirect losses refers to the shareholder's filing of arbitration in its own name to the international arbitration tribunal on the basis of the investment agreement signed by the investor's home country and the host country. The arbitration tribunal determines whether the shareholder is a qualified investor under the investment agreement by interpreting the meaning of "investment" in the investment treaty. But at the same time, there are some problems arising from shareholders' indirect loss claim. Therefore, how to deal with the problems arising from shareholders' indirect loss claim is of great significance.

Bowen Zhang. Research on shareholders' exercise of indirect loss claim in international investment arbitration. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 1: 61-66. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2025.070110.

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